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Digital Citizenship Tools for Cause-Based Campaigns: A Broadened Spectrum of Social Media Engagement and Participation-Scale Methodology develops and applies two new tools for understanding, measuring, and recursively adjusting small to medium-size social media-based philanthropic campaigns to better foster participation and engagement(-)in other words, democratic digital citizenship. First, a theoretical model is offered broadening current binary conceptions of success and failure or impact of campaigns, situating specific participant actions in social media on a spectrum. Then, from that model, a new methodology is provided to measure participation and engagement generated by campaign posts. Recommendations are also offered for recursively adjusting campaign posts to better foster democratic digital citizenship. These tools were developed from data generated by #TheFaceOffChallenge, a research project representative of a typical small to medium-size cause-based campaign. #TheFaceOffChallenge also serves as a sample for analysis illustrating how to use these tools. While explicating these tools, this dissertation explores a broad range of topics related to better understanding democratic digital citizenship: online philanthropy, awareness, and digital activism; viral and memetic transmission; tensions between consumption and creation of ideas, content, and knowledge; public(s), counterpublics, and counter-efforts; literacies and access for engagement and participation in algorithmic environments; and visual communication and semiotics. ; 2018-08-01 ; Ph.D. ; Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office CAH ; Doctoral ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

This qualitative study used an exploratory phenomenological approach to examine professional school counselors' perspectives on the effects of military parental deployment on school aged children and adolescents. The voices of school counselors who work with military connected children are absent from the literature. The research site was a professional counseling conference in Germany in the fall of 2010. Participants consisted of 12 professional school counselors who work with school-aged children and adolescents who have experienced parental military deployment. Participants adopted pseudonyms though several indicated an affiliation with Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DODDS) and therefore offered their unique perspectives as school counselors living in military communities and working almost exclusively with military connected children and families. Data collection consisted of individual interviews with counselor participants. Data analysis consisted of coding meaningful words and phrases and yielded 33 preliminary categories that became new codes. Analysis of relationships between codes resulted in the emergence of four distinct themes: Military Life, Stages of Deployment, Role of the Counselor, and Children and Adolescents. Themes were supported by quotations of meaningful statements, thus participant voices provide thick, rich descriptions of the phenomenon. Validity strategies included peer debriefing, researcher positionality, and multiple examinations of the data set. ; 2011-08-01 ; Ph.D. ; Education, Department of Educational and Human Sciences ; Doctorate ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

The US & the USSR, so opposite in appearance, are yet in reality alike on many points. Their phsycial & natural set's are presently at the same level & the notion of a bourgeois sci finds little support. The 2 systems of educ are becoming more alike. The sociol'ts, while they look at problems differently, are nonetheless using a common language. The ethical structures as well as the basis of law are the same. As for the arts, they are more & more divorcing themselves from socialist reality in the USSR while US citizens are reading Soviet authors & seeing Soviet films. As for philosophy, the USSR has not established a monopoly on materialism & still reflects many traces of idealism. Soc & econ institutions in the 2 countries are becoming more & more alike, & their diff's reside in their various forms of soc relations. Finally, on the pol'al level, the USSR is becoming more liberal, while during the last few decades militarism & the ideology of intolerance have appeared in the US. Tr by J. A.Broussard from IPSA.

Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles asks Gen. Esteban Baca Calderón, Administrator of the Customs of Nuevo Laredo and William Philip Sims to help Adalberto F. Smithers. Report from Gen. Calderón to Soledad González, personal secretary of Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles about the participation of an allegorical car from Mexico, made in Nuevo Laredo for the celebrations of the birth of George Washington in Texas. The car won the first place in a contest. He sends four photos (see photographic library). Letter from Gen. Baca Calderón to Luis Montes de Oca, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit explaining the collusion of customs agents with gold smugglers at the frontier in Tamaulipas. Instruction from Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles to Gen. Baca Calderón to allow the entrance of a film about Dwitgh Morrow by Roberto Turnbull. He also orders to allow the entrance of films about the surrender of the Yaquis in Sonora and the visit of Japanese sailors to the Colegio Militar. / El Gral. PEC recomienda al Gral. Esteban Baca Calderón, Administrador de la Aduana de Nuevo Laredo, se le den toda clase de facilidades a Adalberto F. Smithers. Imparte similares instrucciones para William Philip Sims. Informe del Gral. Calderón a Soledad González, secretaria particular del Gral. PEC, sobre la participación de un carro alegórico de México, preparado en Nuevo Laredo, para las fiestas del natalicio de George Washington en Texas. Dicho carro obtuvo el primer premio en el concurso. Remite 4 fotografías (véase en Fototeca). Carta del Gral. Baca Calderón a Luis Montes de Oca, Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, en la que le expone la confabulación de algunos agentes aduanales con contrabandistas de oro en la frontera tamaulipeca. Instrucciones del Gral. PEC al Gral. Baca Calderón para librar órdenes con objeto de pasar una película sobre Dwight Morrow, realizada por Roberto Turnbull. Después se instruye para lo mismo respecto a películas sobre la rendición de yaquis en Sonora y la visita de marinos japoneses al Colegio Militar.

"For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey's outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling its history, politics, and culture. Throughout the pages of Inside Newark, Curvin approaches his story both as an insider who is rooting for Newark and as an objective social scientist illuminating the causes and effects of sweeping changes in the city Based on historical records and revealing interviews with over one hundred residents and officials, Inside Newark traces Newark's history from the 1950s, when the city was a thriving industrial center, to the era of Mayor Cory Booker. Along the way, Curvin covers the disturbances of July 1967, called a riot by the media and a rebellion by residents; the administration of Kenneth Gibson, the first black mayor of a large northeastern city; and the era of Sharpe James, who was found guilty of corruption. Curvin examines damaging housing and mortgage policies, the state takeover of the failing school system, the persistence of corruption and patronage, Newark's shifting ethnic and racial composition, positive developments in housing and business complexes, and the reign of ambitious mayor Cory Booker. Inside Newark reveals a central weakness that continues to plague Newark--that throughout this history, elected officials have not risen to the challenges they have faced. Curvin calls on those in positions of influence to work for the social and economic improvement of all groups and concludes with suggestions for change, focusing on education reform, civic participation, financial management, partnerships with agencies and business, improving Newark's City Council, and limiting the term of the mayor. If Newark's leadership can encompass these changes, Newark will have a chance at a true turnaround. "--